I missed the game last night but it sounds like all went relatively well. Can someone who watched the game please explain just what the heck has happened to the Ducks? How come they aren't competitive in the standings? Is it Sellane being one year older? Do Perry, Ryan and Getzlaf have to put up 90 points each? Is it goaltending?

I really thought they would be a top 8 seed in the West this year but they have really fallen off. The coaching change did nothing.

Mr.Miyagi wrote:I missed the game last night but it sounds like all went relatively well. Can someone who watched the game please explain just what the heck has happened to the Ducks? How come they aren't competitive in the standings? Is it Sellane being one year older? Do Perry, Ryan and Getzlaf have to put up 90 points each? Is it goaltending?

I really thought they would be a top 8 seed in the West this year but they have really fallen off. The coaching change did nothing.

Mr.Miyagi wrote:I missed the game last night but it sounds like all went relatively well. Can someone who watched the game please explain just what the heck has happened to the Ducks? How come they aren't competitive in the standings? Is it Sellane being one year older? Do Perry, Ryan and Getzlaf have to put up 90 points each? Is it goaltending?

I really thought they would be a top 8 seed in the West this year but they have really fallen off. The coaching change did nothing.

Hiller was not the same goaltender that we saw a few seasons ago... Defensively, they were bad, really bad... None of their forwards wanted to play defense... Their powerplays were bad. Burrows got a clean breakaway but could not score. I have never seen so many odd man rushes for the Canucks when they were killing penalties. At times, I thought it was the Canucks who got the powerplays. Selanne was pretty much the only Duck that showed up... After watching the game last night, I can imagine that this would be the final season for Selanne, at least for the Ducks...

Hiller has not been the same since his mysterious bout with dizziness, thats for sure. Their defence is slow. Up front hey have no depth to compensate for injuries. Their big tough mean running the goaltender act doesn't work anymore.

They are a team ripe to be blown up. If they have lost confidence in hiller then they could be in the hunt for a young stud. They have some intriguing pieces to trade to get one too.

Yuck, The Ducks win this by a country mile. Hodgson is just warming up and Schneider is a Franchise Elite Goaltender in the making. Don't think cement shoes Ryan fits the Canuck system here. Plus, you have to ask yourself, "Why is Anaheim wanting to get rid of him if he is soooooo good?

Whoever the owner of the Ducks are, first thing they need to do is fire the GM before he does something stupid by putting on a firesale. Fire the GM - Murray is it? For hiring that imbecile Bruce Boudreau cause it's obvious the players ain't playing for him like they were in Washington. You just can't go from a good team to a shitty team like this that quickly, something is afoul behind the scenes and it strikes me as being off the ice and upstairs. Get rid of GM and Coach before off-loading star players.

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RoyalDude wrote:Yuck, The Ducks win this by a country mile. Hodgson is just warming up and Schneider is a Franchise Elite Goaltender in the making. Don't think cement shoes Ryan fits the Canuck system here. Plus, you have to ask yourself, "Why is Anaheim wanting to get rid of him if he is soooooo good?

Whoever the owner of the Ducks are, first thing they need to do is fire the GM before he does something stupid by putting on a firesale. Fire the GM - Murray is it? For hiring that imbecile Bruce Boudreau cause it's obvious the players ain't playing for him like they were in Washington. You just can't go from a good team to a shitty team like this that quickly, something is afoul behind the scenes and it strikes me as being off the ice and upstairs. Get rid of GM and Coach before off-loading star players.

I agree RD. The Ducks went from a good team to dismal when Hiller got injured and has not recovered. He made up for a lot of shit play. Right now they only have enough top 6 to make one line and a bottom 6 not worthy of wearing a Ducks uni. Their defence is slow. The team needs a major rebuild but you do it with a new GM and coaching staff. Calgary made the mistake of holding onto Sutter too long and it will cost them for a few years yet. If they had dumped Sutter two years earlier and started t re-tool they would not be in this mess. Anaheim will make the same mistake if they allow current management to do the re-tooling or rebuilding.

The Flyers did it when they let Clark go before he could ruin the team. Heck the Canucks did it in letting the last bastion of the Burke era go in Nonis and brought in MG. The Ducks need a complete new direction and the only way they get that is by changing the management of letting the new GM assess what he has and move on from there.

Losing 2 Norris calibre d-men in last couple seasons definitely hurt them. I think they are rushing Fowler into the bigs as well. He was solid in the first canucks/ducks game but if last night was any indication he is regressing. The cup winning Ducks team could survive undisciplined play and bad penalties with great depth. These days they are still undisciplined but with terrible depth.